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By Kayleigh Donaldson | Film | February 24, 2025
The buzz around Captain America: Brave New World was pretty iffy before it was even released. The reshoots were reportedly extensive and there was this overwhelming sense that Marvel might be entering a real slump. With its opening numbers last week, the movie did respectable numbers, or at least enough to let Disney stave off flop panic for a few days. In its second week of release? It’s not looking good.
While Brave New World held onto the top spot with no real competition to threaten it, it saw a sharp 68.3% drop from its previous numbers. Its total domestic gross is over $141.2 million, which isn’t chump change, but Marvel is used to that being the beginning of a long and fruitful run. Brave New World doesn’t have great reviews or word-of-mouth. It really needs the latter to get a slow-burn theatrical run, and I just don’t see that happening.
Things were much better for The Monkey, Osgood Perkins’ horror-comedy based on a Stephen King short story. Post-Longlegs, Perkins is becoming a hot bet in the genre, one whose name can be put on the posters as a selling point. It’s doing its job here, with The Monkey debuting at number two with $14.2 million from 3,200 theatres.
The Unbreakable Boy is an inspirational drama about a young boy with brittle bone disease and autism. It stars Zachary Levi. It debuted at number nine with $2.5 million. Not much else to say. That Zachary Levi guy sucks.
In limited release news: the action movie Cleaner, starring Daisy Ridley, earned $426,150 from 378 locations; Legends of the Condor Heroes: The Gallants, a Chinese wuxia movie that frankly looks badass, brought in $350,000 from 200 places; and the drama Ex-Husbands made $11,000 from one cinema.
Heading into Oscars weekend, we saw some of the frontrunners get a wee boost at the box office as their distributors pushed them into some more theatres. They’ll want to remain there should they win big so that they can cash in on that exposure. Why else win an Oscar, right? Anora made an extra $115,250 as it was re-released in 126 extra theatres; Conclave pushed its domestic total to over $32.2 million; the self-distributed documentary No Other Land has made over $419,666 from only 54 theatres.
This coming week sees the release of the deep-sea disaster drama Last Breath, the anime movie Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX: Beginning (that’s six ‘U’s there), and My Dead Friend Zoe.
You can check out the rest of the weekend box office results here.
